Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
6-2013
Abstract
We analyse the impact of the early 1990s welfare waivers and the 1996 TANF reform in the United States on at-risk mothers' labour supply behaviour using the PSID. We find that whereas the welfare waivers had limited impacts on at-risk mothers, the TANF reform played an important role in encouraging those mothers to increase their labour supply at the intensive margin.
Keywords
at-risk mothers, labour supply, welfare reform
Discipline
Labor Economics
Research Areas
Applied Microeconomics
Publication
Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy
Volume
32
Issue
2
First Page
249
Last Page
257
ISSN
1759-3441
Identifier
10.1111/1759-3441.12028
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
HO, Christine.
Welfare Reform and At-Risk Mothers' Labour Supply. (2013). Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy. 32, (2), 249-257.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1529
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-3441.12028